UtahPreneur

About UtahPreneur

Think you know Utah? These iconic founders will change your mind. UtahPreneur is a storytelling podcast featuring real, unfiltered conversations with the people building Utah’s most impactful businesses. From bootstrapped startups to 8-figure brands, we share what it takes to grow in one of the top-ranked states for business innovation. Utah is exploding with talent, ideas, and opportunity. And behind every founder is a wild story worth sharing. This podcast gives you an inside look at those journeys through honest, in-person interviews with iconic business owners. 🎧 Weekly founder interviews from across Utah 🧠 Insights for entrepreneurs, creatives, and curious locals ⛰️ True stories of risk, resilience, and growth in Utah Notable Guests: Chatbooks, Costa Vida, Beehive Meals, Project Solar, Kid-to-Kid, Murphy Door Topics: Utah startups, local business growth, marketing strategy, leadership, funding, hiring, scaling, brick-and-mortar success, community impact, small business,

Publisher

Keaton Walker - Small Business Marketing Expert & Entrepreneur

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Nov 2024

Latest episode

14 Oct 2025

Latest episodes

1 of 26 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   14 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Built a $24M/yr Brand… But Drove a Civic?! | HydroJug (Hayden Wadsworth)

   Hayden Wadsworth, co-founder of HydroJug, discusses building a multimillion-dollar drinkware brand from a simple idea, revealing the challenges and triumphs of disrupting the industry in this interview.

2. 

   24 Sept 2025

   Why Founders in Utah Are 70% More Likely to Build a Unicorn (Tim Culie)

   Tim Culie, head of the Startup State Initiative, explores Utah's unique environment that fosters unicorn startups and discusses the state's approach to supporting tech and entrepreneurship in an interview with the host.

3. 

   12 Jun 2025

   He Yelled About Laptops on TV… Turns Out He’s a Crypto Millionaire | PC Laptops (Dan Young)

   Dan Young, founder of PC Laptops, shares his unconventional journey from swap meets to crypto millionaire, revealing the business empire he built behind the scenes in this interview.

Inside a recent episode

Built a $24M/yr Brand… But Drove a Civic?! | HydroJug (Hayden Wadsworth)

Published 14 Oct 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] That's when you're starting to think of like, you know, what are core values? And looking back, I was like, what were the things that were important to me? Like while I was kind of building the business. And it's customer's interestity, hard work, resourcefulness, pride and craft, and teamwork. And this is what, like this is obviously on the pride and craft. So like with my mom's subways, right? She had us cleaning the tops of the fans. She had us cleaning the ice machine. And who do you think shoveled the walks? Do you think she paid someone to do that, right? And during the winter, like we did it. […]

Who has been a guest on UtahPreneur

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Hayden Wadsworth
• Tim Culie
• Dan Young
• Bill Reagan
• Mark Dietlein

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

107,129

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

20 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 48 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

41

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

51